page_title: List of National League pennant winners
section_title: League Championship Series era (1969–present)
hierarchical_section_title: List of National League pennant winners / League Championship Series era (1969–present)
caption_attribution_description: English: The Los Angeles Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies stand with giant American flag in background during the National Anthem preceding Game 3 of the NLCS in 2008 at Dodger Stadium
context_page_description: The National League pennant winner of a given Major League Baseball season is the team that wins the championship — the pennant — of MLB's National League. This team receives the Warren C. Giles Trophy and the right to play in the World Series against the champion of the American League. The current NL pennant winners are the Washington Nationals, who won the franchise's first NL pennant in October 2019.
  The trophy is named for Warren Giles, the league president from 1951 to 1969, and is presented immediately after each NL Championship Series by Warren's son Bill Giles, the honorary league president and owner of the Philadelphia Phillies.
  From 1876 through 1968, the pennant was awarded to the team with the best regular-season record. Beginning in 1969, the league was divided into East and West divisions, with the champions of each playing for the pennant in the League Championship Series. From 1995 there have been three divisions and a two-round playoff bracket which begins with two Division Series.
  The pennant has been awarded every year since 1876, except for 1994, when a players' strike forced the cancellation of the postseason.
caption: In 2008, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Dodgers faced off in the National League championship series for the pennant; the Phillies won, four games to one.
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